A Patriotic Partnership
Starting on Flag Day, June 14, 2009, Join and support Keela Carr by pledging one, two, three, four or five cents a mile to help Ketia4Kidz Foundation help military kids of active duty military members. Keela will walk a total of 2700 miles from Ft. Irwin, California to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Set out in pursuit of her goal of meeting and thanking military children on Fort Carson, Colorado, Fort Leonardwood, Missouri, Fort Riley, Kansas and ending up in Arlinginton National Cemetery where …
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Leighton Parker of Lagrange, Georgia recently celebrated turning 11 in a big way, but not with ponies, helicopter rides, or even a trip to Chuck E. Cheese.
The day I met Ketia in person over ten years ago remains lucid: pigtails, walking on her tip-toes with an unusual gait, and a crooked right pinky as she appeared in the gym doors.
What: Promotional Tour with A Thousand Thanks
What: Promotional Tour with A Thousand Thanks
Ketia4Kidz, Inc. is asking foundations and corporations to make a positive difference in the lives of military children of active duty military personnel…
This is the first official blog from myself, Ketia Swanier. My parents always encouraged me to give back. I wanted to give back to a familiar community of my own, the military. Being an only child and having both parents in the military your entire childhood is tough and it caused me to be in a single parent home for the majority of the time due to deployment. My brother/sister was basketball. Looking back on what I know now basketball kept me sane, disciplined, strong and out of trouble. It …
Before Ketia Swanier played her first game for Connecticut, her AAU coach Mike Green told reporters she was a “wizard with the ball.”
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By MATT STOUT
mstout@norwichbulletin.com
Posted Dec 04, 2008 @ 11:38 PM
Even now, when Ketia Swanier thinks back to her childhood, rarely both parents are involved. Grocery store trips in Europe with her mother. Getting ready for school as her father does her hair. Waiting for one to return home — then hoping the other doesn’t have to leave.
Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq weren’t places in the news for Swanier. She hoped to see them on the caller ID.
“I remember breaking down by myself because I didn’t really …
On May 26, 2008 after months of planning what can only be described as a very grass roots event. I set out on foot on a 2,700 mile cross-country adventure departing from Ft. Irwin California and culminating near our nation’s Capitol on the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
Connecticut Sun guard Ketia Swanier, who helped lead the UConn women
to the Final Four last season, is the only member of her WNBA team not playing basketball overseas. But she has a good reason for putting her career on hold.
